The January 28th Science News has an editorial by Tom Siegfried that points out that neutrinos were predicted to conserve the energy in radioactive beta decay. The OPERA results show unbalanced energy in the other direction. The pions that decay and create neutrinos do not have enough energy to get them past the speed of light.
Either energy is coming from somewhere new, or something is wrong with the speed measurement apparatus. Then again, it could be something undiscovered about the propagation velocity of neutrinos in the crust of the Earth. Something like the velocity gain of spacecraft diving into a planet's gravity well and escaping again. More details are in the article on page 9, "Neutrino parents set speed limits" subtitle "FTL flight would violate conservation laws." The article refers to a paper by Xiaojun Bi in the Dec 9 "Physical Review of Letters." Just when you thought there were no new physics to be discovered, time appears to be out of joint. Bill Hawkins As Yogi Berra once said, "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.